The Color of Liberty
Histories of Race in France
1st Edition
Published on 30. June 2003
400 pages
978-0-8223-8470-0 (ISBN)
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Traces the multiple histories of race and racial thinking over time in France and in Francophone areas of the globe.
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Duke University Press
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Sue Peabody is Associate Professor of History at Washington State University Vancouver and the author of "There Are No Slaves in France": The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Régime.Tyler Stovall is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include France since the Second World War, Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light, and The Rise of the Paris Red Belt.
Content
Acknowledgments vii
Foreword / Fred Constant ix
Introduction: Race, France, Histories / Sue Peabody and Tyler Stovall 1
1. Race: The Evolution of an Idea
Francois Bernier and the Origins of the Modern Concept of Race / Pierre H. Boulle 11
Eliminating Race, Eliminating Difference: Blacks, Jews, and the Abbe Gregoire / Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall 28
Of Monstrous Metis? Hybridity, Fear of Miscegenation, and Patriotism from Buffon to Paul Broca / Claude Blanckaert 42
2. Representations of the Other
Race, Gender, and Virtue in Haiti's Failed Foundational Fiction: La mulatre comme il y a peu de blanches (1803) / John Garrigus 73
Inscribing Race in the Revolutionary French Antilles / Laurent DuBois 95
Sex, Gender, and Race in the Colonial Novels of Elissa Rhais and Lucienne Favre / Patricia M. E. Lorcin 108
French Images of Race on Product Trademarks during the Third Republic / Dana S. Hale 131
Sambo in Paris: Race and Racism in the Iconography of the Everyday / Leora Auslander and Thomas C. Holt 147
3. Colonial and Global Perspectives
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Variation and Difference in French Racism in Colonial Indochine / Michael G. Vann 187
Constructions and Functions of Race in French Military Medicine, 1830-1920 / Richard Fogerty and Michael A. Osborne 206
Panafricanism and the Republican Political Sphere / Gary Wilder 237
Frantz Fanon, the Resistance, and the Emergence of Identity Politics / Dennis McEnnerney 259
4. Race and the Postcolonial City
Identity under Construction: Representing the Colonies at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1889 / Lynn E. Palermo 285
Who Speaks for Africa? The Rene Maran-Blaise Diagne Trial in 1920s Paris / Alice L. Conklin 302
Catholics, Communists, and Colonial Subjects: Working-Class Militancy and Racial Difference in Postwar Marseille / Yael Simpson Fletcher 338
From Red Belt to Black Belt: Race, Class, and Urban Marginality in Twentieth-Century Paris / Tyler Stovall 351
Contributors 371
Index 377
Foreword / Fred Constant ix
Introduction: Race, France, Histories / Sue Peabody and Tyler Stovall 1
1. Race: The Evolution of an Idea
Francois Bernier and the Origins of the Modern Concept of Race / Pierre H. Boulle 11
Eliminating Race, Eliminating Difference: Blacks, Jews, and the Abbe Gregoire / Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall 28
Of Monstrous Metis? Hybridity, Fear of Miscegenation, and Patriotism from Buffon to Paul Broca / Claude Blanckaert 42
2. Representations of the Other
Race, Gender, and Virtue in Haiti's Failed Foundational Fiction: La mulatre comme il y a peu de blanches (1803) / John Garrigus 73
Inscribing Race in the Revolutionary French Antilles / Laurent DuBois 95
Sex, Gender, and Race in the Colonial Novels of Elissa Rhais and Lucienne Favre / Patricia M. E. Lorcin 108
French Images of Race on Product Trademarks during the Third Republic / Dana S. Hale 131
Sambo in Paris: Race and Racism in the Iconography of the Everyday / Leora Auslander and Thomas C. Holt 147
3. Colonial and Global Perspectives
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Variation and Difference in French Racism in Colonial Indochine / Michael G. Vann 187
Constructions and Functions of Race in French Military Medicine, 1830-1920 / Richard Fogerty and Michael A. Osborne 206
Panafricanism and the Republican Political Sphere / Gary Wilder 237
Frantz Fanon, the Resistance, and the Emergence of Identity Politics / Dennis McEnnerney 259
4. Race and the Postcolonial City
Identity under Construction: Representing the Colonies at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1889 / Lynn E. Palermo 285
Who Speaks for Africa? The Rene Maran-Blaise Diagne Trial in 1920s Paris / Alice L. Conklin 302
Catholics, Communists, and Colonial Subjects: Working-Class Militancy and Racial Difference in Postwar Marseille / Yael Simpson Fletcher 338
From Red Belt to Black Belt: Race, Class, and Urban Marginality in Twentieth-Century Paris / Tyler Stovall 351
Contributors 371
Index 377
